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From the Ted Talk by Amy Tan: Where does creativity hide?

Unscramble the Blue Letters

And I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths. I believe in sipccefis, the specifics of sroty, and the past, the specifics of that past, and what is happening in the story at that point. I also believe that in thinking about things — my thinking about luck, and fate, and coincidences and aetidccns, God's will, and the snyconhry of mysterious forces — I will come to some noiotn of what that is, how we create. I have to think of my role. Where I am in the universe, and did somebody itennd for me to be that way, or is it just something I came up with? And I also can find that by imagining fully, and becoming what is imagined — and yet is in that real world, the fictional world. And that is how I find particles of truth, not the absolute truth, or the whole truth. And they have to be in all possibilities, including those I never considered before.

Open Cloze

And I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths. I believe in _________, the specifics of _____, and the past, the specifics of that past, and what is happening in the story at that point. I also believe that in thinking about things — my thinking about luck, and fate, and coincidences and _________, God's will, and the _________ of mysterious forces — I will come to some ______ of what that is, how we create. I have to think of my role. Where I am in the universe, and did somebody ______ for me to be that way, or is it just something I came up with? And I also can find that by imagining fully, and becoming what is imagined — and yet is in that real world, the fictional world. And that is how I find particles of truth, not the absolute truth, or the whole truth. And they have to be in all possibilities, including those I never considered before.

Solution

  1. specifics
  2. intend
  3. synchrony
  4. accidents
  5. story
  6. notion

Original Text

And I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths. I believe in specifics, the specifics of story, and the past, the specifics of that past, and what is happening in the story at that point. I also believe that in thinking about things — my thinking about luck, and fate, and coincidences and accidents, God's will, and the synchrony of mysterious forces — I will come to some notion of what that is, how we create. I have to think of my role. Where I am in the universe, and did somebody intend for me to be that way, or is it just something I came up with? And I also can find that by imagining fully, and becoming what is imagined — and yet is in that real world, the fictional world. And that is how I find particles of truth, not the absolute truth, or the whole truth. And they have to be in all possibilities, including those I never considered before.

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Important Words

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